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vkb1982

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First of all just wanted to say that i have gotten alot of answers from all of you who participate in anandtech's forums. So inspired I joined myself and now I have a problem.

I am pretty new with computers so if you could bere with...

I recently purchased a winchester 3000 cpu and a soltek motherboard. Besides the multiplier being locked at 9, i now have a cd drive problem. I installed the mobo and cpu and everything worked. Now my cd drive takes forever to read a cd and does not read burned cds. Please help. I have tried switching the ide, switched the peg every way possible on the cd drive but no success. It take about 5-10 minutes to read a cd. PLEASE HELP??????
 
Hi vkb1982 🙂 Looking at the photos of the board at Newegg, I see it has the three IDE plugs close together (covered with a sticker in Newegg's photo). I'm guessing one of those three is operated by the onboard Promise ATA controller, and thus is not CD-ROM-friendly. You might check in your manual to see if it's the yellow one that's the odd one, and if your optical drive isn't on that one, then that's the easy thing out of the way.

Other than that, try different ATA cables and/or a different optical drive as a fact-finding step, if you have others you can use for testing.

edit: the board might also be wanting a BIOS update. There's a lot of that going on with the Winchester-core processors on several popular mobos.
 
i tried it on my buddies computer and it works perfectly.....will see what happens. I tried the yellow one and it did not even boot the computer. Maybe i will try hooking it up to ide 1
 
i just went and tried to switch the ide connectors for both of them, did not work, i have tried everything possible. I am wondering if I should reinstall windows because of the new mobo and chip. I have not done that. Operating system is still the same from the previous athlon xp and n2 force mobo
 
With a new mobo, a reinstall of Windows is the norm, yeah. BTW, if you'd like to try out the free 360-day trial of WinXP 64-Bit Edition, you can get that from Microsoft and burn it to CD: Link
 
Does the Device Manager show anything unusual for the optical drive? Prolly can't hurt to check.

Fern
 
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